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Sydney · Railways, roads & transport
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The following is the Bill to authorise the construction and maintenance of Tramways along certain Streets and Highways in the City and Suburbs of Sydney and elsewhere, introduced to the Legislative Assembly by the Hon. John…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday the Minister for Public Works, Mr. Lackey, moved the first reading of a Bill to authorise the construction and maintenance of tramways along certain streets and highways in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Thos. Hungerford, M.L.A., in company with Mr. T. W. Hogue, council clerk, Wickham, waited upon the Chief Commissioner for Roads this morning respecting the sum of £150 promised some time since…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Minister for Public Works this morning received a deputation, composed of a number of residents at Balmain and neighbourhood, asking for the construction of tramways at a means of transit for the people…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The desire to obtain tramways throughout the metropolis has been be general since the successful inauguration of the city line, that it is not surprising that the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is understood that negotiations have boon entered into between the Government and the contractors for the above line, which, it satisfactorily concluded, will have the result of its being opened…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On Sunday night, just past, seven o'clock, when the storm was at its height, the train from Edinburgh to Dundee attempted to cross the great Tay Viaduct as usual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On 20th instant a deputation consisting of Mr. W. C. Browne, Mr. S. Gray, Mr. J. B. Thompson, and Mr. S. H. Terry—all members of the Legislative Assembly—waited on the Minister for Works, for the purpose of presenting a…
Continued on Trove, page 395 →The Tramway Bill, introduced by the Minister for Public Works in the Legislative Assembly last evening, provides for the construction of the undermentioned lines :--…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir, -- I ask space for a few words on the above measure. I suppose Government action is guided by the principle of doing the greatest good to the greater number in the schemes they originate. If I…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. Lucas; M.L.A., introduced to the Secretary for Public Works yesterday, a deputation consisting of Mr. Percy Lucas (Mayor of Petersham), Mr. Fraser (Mayor of Leichhardt), Mr. Elkington…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Lucas, M.L.A. introduced a deputation, consisting of Mr. P. Lucas, Mayor of Camperdown; Mr. Fraser, Mayor of Leichhardt: Mr.A. Elkington, Mayor of Balmain; Aldermen J.M'Donland and G. Argumbeau,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. H.S. Badgery, M.L.A. (of Pitt, Son, and Badgery), introduced Mr. Minchin (of Wilkinson, Graves, Minchin, and Lavender, Sydney, Wagga, and Hay), who came toask the Minister for Works on behalf of the squatters of the-Wagga…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE Tramway Bill, introduced by the Minister for Public Works in the Legislative Assembly last Tuesday, provides for the construction of the undermentioned lines:—…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Last Friday the Minister for Public Works (Mr. Lackey) received a deputation, consisting ofMr. W. C. Brown, Mr. Gray, Mr. Terry, and Mr. Thompson, M.L.A.s, to ask that a trial…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →SIR,—Every man who has a tool above self wil fell glad to knew that the Government have introduced, and mean to carry out, the "Tramway Extension Bill," the second reading of which of which was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A correspondent of the Otago Daily Times contributes the following information to that journal with reference to the street tramways of San Francisco:—"I think I may fairly claim that street railroads built San Francisco. If it…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An inquest was held yesterday on the body of the young man Webster, who was killed through falling under the wheels of a truck at Kelso on Saturday. The evidence showed that deceased…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →YESTERDAY morning Mr. Bad gery, Mr. Bewman M.P., and Mr.Seift of Liverpool Plains, interviewed Mr. Baker, Minister for Lands, the object of their visit bong to induce the Minister to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →FIERCER and fiercer the hurricane blew, As twilight descended in darkness and gloom; On the Tay rushing madly in foam crested waves, And heedless of those speeding on to their graves,…
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